Best anxiety & guilt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Courage to Create

“When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.”

Source: The Discovery of Being

“We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”

Today Used Religious Anxiety Performances Guilt Versions Secular Performance Anxiety

Author:Esther Perel

“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.”

“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.”

“Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.”

Want Doe Enemy Support Atheism Anxiety Perception Negative Aspect Guilt Oneself Positive Atheism Acknowledge Characteristics Recalls Stereotype Paranoia Selective

Author:Sam Keen

“No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.”

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Book:I Can't Believe I Said That!

Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!

“I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.”

Thinking Culture Taught Materials Anxiety Filled Guilt Embarrassing Jewish Culture

Author:Robert Mankoff

“We've been taught that the Christian life is a life of peace, and when we don't have peace, we assume the problem lies within us. Not only do we feel anxious, but we also feel guilty about our anxiety! The result is a downward spiral of worry, guilt, worry, guilt.”

Problem Christian Lying Worry Anxiety Guilt Assuming Christian Life Guilty Anxious

Author:Max Lucado

“Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of happiness today -count blessings, memorize Bible verses, pray, sing hymns, spend time with encouraging people. Do you want to guarantee tomorrow's misery? Then wallow in a mental mud pit of self-pity or guilt or anxiety today assume the worst, beat yourself up, rehearse your regrets, complain to complainers.”

People Thinking Running Today Worst Regret Praying Tomorrow Blessing Anxiety Guilt Assuming Misery Careful Complaining Be Careful Verses End Times Spend Time Want To Be Happy Complainers

Author:Max Lucado

“People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.”

People Mind Change Anxiety Judgment Negative Guilt Good Things Obsessed Calming Calm Down

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.”

People Fear Worry Anxiety Shame Guilt Each Day Pessimism Drag Superstitions Negativity Seizing

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?”

“The rewards of integrity are immeasurable. One is the indescribable inner peace and serenity that come from knowing we are doing what is right; another is an absence of the guilt and anxiety that accompany sin. Another reward of integrity is the confidence it can give us in approaching God. When virtue garnishes our thoughts unceasingly, our confidence is strong in the presence of God.”

Giving Strong Sin Knowing Virtue Integrity Anxiety Guilt Rewards Absence Inner Peace Serenity Our Thoughts Accompany Presence Of God Indescribable Peace And Serenity

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.”

Pain Past Energy Hurt Anxiety Guilt Remembered Inward Hurt Pain

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.”

Past Our Lives Awareness Anxiety Mindfulness Guilt Over The Past

Author:Russell Targ

“People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.”

People Needs War Hard Strong Natural Emotional Lucky Anxiety Smart Abuse Harder Guilt Disaster Torture Hard Times Emotional Abuse Degradation Natural Disaster

Book:Shanghai Girls

Source: Shanghai Girls

“The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.”

Results Too Much Anxiety Guilt Agreement

Book:Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”

“Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.”

“No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must be strictly monitored by its owner to prevent lapses into health-threatening behaviors as identified by risk discourse. For those with the socioeconomic resources to indulge in risk modification, this discourse may supply the advantages of a new religion; for others, this discourse has the potential to create anxiety and guilt, to promote hopelessness and fear of the future.”

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